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Summer Recess
Season 1
We're going on summer recess--for a good reason: Caropop is getting a long-awaited tune-up. We’ll be tweaking the presentation and improving the way …
10 months, 1 week ago
Craig Finn (The Hold Steady)
Season 1 Episode 191
No surprise, talking music with Craig Finn is stimulating and a lot of fun. The Hold Steady’s frontman/lyricist recently released his sixth solo albu…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Gina Birch (The Raincoats)
Season 1 Episode 190
Bassist Gina Birch is a founding member of the legendary British post-punk band the Raincoats, whose self-titled 1977 debut album is an off-kilter cl…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper)
Season 1 Episode 189
Bassist Dennis Dunaway was—and is—one of the key figures in the 1970s rock band, Alice Cooper. That’s right, the band Alice Cooper, which recorded se…
11 months ago
Chris Stamey 2025
Season 1 Episode 188
When I spoke with Chris Stamey way back for Caropop Ep. 30, he shared a sheet music collection called Marvelous Melodies Songbook, New Songs Vol. III…
11 months, 1 week ago
May Pang (John Lennon)
Season 1 Episode 187
May Pang was John Lennon’s companion for the late-1973-to-early-1975 period that has become known as Lennon’s “lost weekend.” Although Pang has used …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Jim Davis (Mobile Fidelity)
Season 1 Episode 186
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has been a top audiophile label since its 1977 founding and 2001 reboot after Jim Davis, president of the high-end audio eq…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
John Hall (Rickenbacker)
Season 1 Episode 185
John Hall has been CEO of the family-run Rickenbacker guitar company since 1984, right around when R.E.M.'s Peter Buck was inspiring a generation of …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
David Lowery 2025
Season 1 Episode 184
David Lowery is looking back while pushing forward. The brainy, witty Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker frontman just released a two-CD, three-LP solo alb…
1 year ago
Zev Feldman, 'Jazz Detective'
Season 1 Episode 183
Zev Feldman, a.k.a. the “Jazz Detective,” has turned his crate-digging passion into a career: He tracks down previously unreleased recordings and jum…
1 year ago